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Corpus A database of real spoken or written language, taken from newspaper articles, magazine articles, websites, radio programs, TV programs, etc.

A corpus is used as a basic reference material for analysis of the language, such as producing a concordance. It is also used for writing definitions of words, and examples of how they are used, especially in the compilation of dictionaries.